Blog - Stray Cinema

Away From the Train

Away From the Train is our latest film submission from anaesthesiaassociates. They have sampled the click sound from the heel of the lead actress's shoe in the song they have written especially for the film. They have then cued up this sound effect to play in time with the visual, which makes for an interesting, and in my opinion very good, result. What do you think? vote, vote vote :)

a blog about youtube

By michelle, 5 years ago - No Comments

youtube is the website of the moment, it’s all everyone wants to talk about. I am even going to talk about it for a bit.

First, my personal view on youtube, is that it is a reflection of a political movement that is happening all across the internet at the moment. The idea of democratizing media, and making it accessible for all or at least more people to tell their story (Stray Cinema very much embraces this idea). I believe that youtube is just an off-cut of this political movement in the film sharing space. It is other things too

Youtube will soon be sharing revenue with their users. As per an earlier blog i wrote, there are already many different websites that allow you to share a profit from the advertising revenue they make on your film. Youtube are just bringing this idea to the masses.

On the flip side of sharing advertising revenue, perhaps this will mean that the quality of content uploaded to youtube will be alot better. Yes in a way that’s great, but I think one of youtube’s strengths is it’s openness to people uploading everyday things, and allowing it’s everyday users to communicate via the powerful medium of film. Now we may see an influx of more professional films on this site, which detract from the everydayness (I’m really sorry I promise I won’t use the word ‘everyday’ again) of youtube’s typical footage, and may cut out a whole branch of their participating community?

a message in a bottle

By michelle, 5 years ago - No Comments

not sure about anyone else, but i was very impressed with this latest entry into our competition by
'directorscute'.

of course my opinion counts for as much as yours in this project - so please vote and comment on this film - and our other recent entries. what do you think of them?

CrowdSpirit.org

By michelle, 5 years ago - No Comments

ok, here's a community based project with a difference. it will be interesting to see how it works out. i like the adventurousness of it!

"Step 1
The community sends ideas, fine tunes them & votes for the best one.

Step 2
The best ideas and their product specifications are jointly defined with Partners. Community Investors start financing the product development.

Step 3
The first prototype is tested and fine-tuned by the community.

Step 4
Customers purchase products thanks to the CrowdSpirit Supply chain. The community ensures the product support and recommends products to retailers."